The doctors and chief surgeons might get most of the spotlight on TV’s biggest medical dramas and comedies but just like in the medical profession, it’s the people that’s supposedly “under” them that deserve some, if not, most of the credit. Surgical technologists, surgical nurses and even anesthesiologists contribute a great deal of work and dedication to ensure their patients’ well being as the big-headed, ego dragging son of a you-know-what who’s just there to do the cutting and sewing when everyone else’s job is done. And while we can’t recognize the efforts of those who do these thankless jobs day in and day out even though all of us should (those of you who can afford to fill a school bus with beer and chocolates should do so now), the least we can do is honor the attempts in TV land to portray this thankless profession with the nobility it deserves.

The Todd from “Scrubs”

He might look like another muscle slicing meathead with no real chance at any other career, outside of beef slicer at an Arby’s. Looks can be deceiving, so don’t let the flaming surgical hairnet fool you.

He’s actually quite an effective and thorough surgeon who not only loves his work as much as he loves the ladies (we assume), but he knows how to think on his feet in an operating room even though he’s usually thinking about other activities that don’t involve standing. Despite all of his obvious, shallow flaws, he can actually be quite the helper in the OR because unlike other surgeons with more advanced brains, he actually “lives in the moment” whether he’s over the knife or the few times he’s under someone else.

Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan from “M*A*S*H”

In times as dire and extreme as war, a hard-edged, hard-charging and hard working surgical nurse is exactly the kind of person any patient would want in their corner. Other times? Not so much.

Maj. Houlihan, the strict, leggy blonde of the M*A*S*H 4077th Unit who served during the Korean conflict, may have been a huge pain in her shapely and firm ass outside of the OR but when she took the table, she could wrangle a scalpel and pass a suture with the best of them. She’s efficient, responsive, quick and dedicated to her profession and her patients, even if she sometimes lets military logic get in the way of common sense. It also doesn’t hurt that those big blue eyes of hers make wearing a surgical mask and cap a fashion must.

Liz Cruz from “Nip/Tuck”

Plastic surgery might not be the most noble medical profession a human being can enter but it does have it’s own unique moments where ethics are tested and lines are drawn between right and wrong, which is just about every procedure a plastic surgeon schedules.

This anesthesiologist is probably the lone voice of reason in an otherwise extremely corruptible medical facility, as evidenced by the fact that a drug lord with even less scruples than the chief skin cutters almost took down their entire operation. She doesn’t just know the right thing to do in any given situation. She does her job in spite of this to the best of her ability and always puts the patient first, even if the patient would like to put her six feet underground such as the drug lord’s very naive wife who Cruz cares for even though her husband almost killed her.

Martha Masters from “House M.D.”

This intern might have a lot to learn about skirting the basic rules of doctor-patient confidentiality and medical ethics, but she has a firebrand form of dedication to not only serving her patients but the medical profession as a whole, even if those rules get in the way of actually helping her patients.

She reluctantly joins Dr. House’s team, even though she’s still wet behind the ears and House’s job requirements entail not drowning from his daily waterboard torture approach to investigative medicine. Despite her initial misgivings and shyness, she still puts her beliefs and ethics ahead of her introversion and works to help her patients within the ethical boundaries of her practice. This not only makes her a knowledgeable and experienced physician, but one who is also willing to stand up for what she believes, even if it’s in House’s gruff and leathery face.

Lt. Kellye Yamato from “M*A*S*H”

She might not be the most recognizable face at the 4077th but she was there for the camp’s entire run and even though she was lost in the background, she easily has the biggest heart of anyone on the staff.

The “Hey, Look Me Over” episode features Kellye trying to get the notorious babehound Hawkeye Pierce to pay more than a second of attention to her and when Hawkeye fails to even notice her existence outside of the OR, probably because he’s too chicken to face the possibility of rejecting and hurting her by getting close to her, she shows him just how endearing and dedicated she can be by giving a dying and delirious soldier one last moment of tenderness by pretending to be his girl back home as he drifts into death. She has a unique and endearing quality you just can’t train, even in the most experienced surgical technologist .

Chucky – Height: 2’2”
Seen in: Child’s Play, Child’s Play 2, Child’s Play 3, Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky

Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) – Height: 2’8”
Seen in: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember

Oompa Loompas – Height: 2’11”
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Bilbo Baggins – Height: 3’4”
The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King

E.T. – Height: 3’5”
Seen in: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial

Ewoks – Height: 3’6”
Seen in: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

Tony Cox – Height: 3’6″
Seen in: Bad Santa, Me, Myself & Irene, Friday, Midget Fight, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Spaceballs, Willow, Beetle Juice, I’m Gonna Get You Sucka

Wee-Man (Jason Bryant Acuña) – Height: 4’.05”
Seen in: Jackass, Wildboyz, Jackass the Movie

The Roloff Family – Height: 4’1” – 4’4”
Seen in: Little People, Big World

Dr. Ruth Westheimer – Height: 4’7”
Seen in: Sexually Speaking, What’s Up Dr. Ruth,

Gary Coleman (Arnold Jackson) – Height: 4’8”
Seen in: Diff’rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, Good Times, The Facts of Life, Dirty Work, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Midgets vs. Mascots

Snooki Polizzi – Height: 4’9”
Seen in: MTV’s Jersey Shore

Danny Devito – Height: 5’
Seen in: Taxi, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Terms of Endearment, Romancing the Stone, Twins, Junior, Batman Returns, Last Action Hero, Get Shorty, Matilda, Space Jam, How High, Be Cool, Deck the Halls

The wondrously fantastic show ALF was a late 80s classic. TVs favorite Alien Life Form (ALF) ran for 4 seasons with a total of 101 episodes. All of which have been released on DVD and can be purchased right now (I highly suggest you go get them). You can also catch all episodes on Hulu.

The masterpiece of the talented yet zany Paul Fusco (the man behind the puppet and voice) has warmed many a child’s heart. Mr. Fusco has been trying to reacquire the rights to the show from Hallmark and is also working on a movie that would highlight how exactly ALF ended up on earth. He is also attempting to revive the talk show. I would love to see anything and everything ALF but from the sounds of some Paul is difficult to work with.

This show brought us the Melmacian who lived with the Tanner family and has a taste for feline critters. There have been various articles about life on set but whatever happened to this lovable cast?

Willie Tanner – Max Wright

Since ALF, the 66 year old, has continued to act. He has been in various TV shows including Murder She Wrote, Quantum Leap, Murphy Brown, Friends, Mad About You, The Drew Carey Show and The Norm Show. He also did a little film work including Grumpier Old Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Snow Falling On Cedars. He did some acting with the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in Detroit, Michigan in 2007. He was nominated for Broadway’s 1998 Tony Award as Best Actor for his role as Lebedev in  Ivanov.

In 1995 he was diagnosed with lymphoma and has been in remission since. He was arrested for drunk driving in 2000 in Los Angeles, California. He received probation for this offense. He subsequently got another DUI in 2003 in New York resulting in suspension of his driving privileges for 6 months. He was visiting his daughter and ended up running into some mailboxes and a traffic sign. There were no injuries in either case and he plead guilty to both.

He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Linda. He has two children with her, Ben and Daisy.

Kate Tanner – Anne Schedeen

After the show the 61 year old didn’t do much more acting. She was on a few episodes of Perry Mason, Praying Mantis, Heaven’s Prisoners and Judging Amy.

She once gave acting classes in Los Angeles but no longer offers them. She is currently living there as an antiquer and decorator. She is married to Christopher Barrett. She has a daughter, Taylor (20 years old).

Lynn Tanner – Andrea Elson

After the the show, the 40 year old did a small amount of acting appearing on Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Married With Children, Mad About You, Step By Step and Men Behaving Badly.

She currently lives in Los Angeles with husband TV Producer Scott Hopper, whom she met while on ALF. They have a daughter Claire (22 years old). She suffered from bulimia towards the end of the show but says that her pregnancy was what led to her to really come to grips with it and get healthy.

Brian Tanner – Benji Gregory/Benjamin Gregory Hertzberg

After the show the 31 year old did a small amount of acting and voice work including Murphy Brown, Never Forget, Lady Against the Odds and Once Upon a Forest. His last credited role was in 1993. He moved to San Francisco and attended the Academy of Arts College and has not acted since.

He married his wife Sarah in 2006.

Trevor Ochmonek – John LaMotta

After the the show the 71 year old continued to act doing a lot of TV work including Who’s the Boss?, Growing Pains, Northern Exposure, ER, The Nanny, Weird Science, Fraiser and Caroline in the City. He was in a few movies including In This Corner, The Scout, Fatal Choice, Pet Shop, Motel Blue, The Godson and Five Aces.

He has been a boxer from a young age and in 1990 was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

He has three children with his ex-wife Vicki. At one point he owned and operated a night-club on Miami Beach called Jake Lamotta’s with his nephew (and fellow boxer) by the same name.

Raquel Ochmonek – Liz Sheridan

The 80 year old has done a lot of acting since the show, most notably Jerry Seinfeld’s mother Helen on Seinfeld. She also did further TV work on Murder She Wrote, Melrose Place, Empty Nest, Blossom, Life With Louie and Numb3rs. She had a voice role in American Dad. She was in several movies as recently as 2008′s Play the Game as well as Only You, Wishman, Wedding Bell Blues, Closing the Deal and Escape.

She was married to jazz trumpeter William Dale Wales since 1985, until his death in 2003 from lung cancer. He left $80,000 in credit card debt forcing her to file for bankruptcy. She has one daughter.

The the 1950s she was engaged to James Dean and wrote a book about that time period with him titled Dizzy & Jimmy: My Life with James Dean: A Love Story released in 2000.

Jake Ochmonek – Josh Blake/Joshua Buxbaum

After the show the 35 year old did some further TV acting on Married With Children, Full House, The Wonder Years, Home Improvement, Becker, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Spyder Games and JAG. He also did voice work on Tony Hawk’s video game American Wasteland.

At one point he lived in New York City. He graduated from George Washington University. He was also the singer in a band called Float but the band is no longer together.

He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is a real estate agent for a division of Keller Williams that specializes in downtown lofts.

ALF – Gordon Shumway

After the show the 253 year old Melmacian went on to a number of various projects. He had a two season animated series which chronicled his life on his home planet. In total there were 26 episodes. He was also featured in a Marvel comic series with a total of 50 issues. In 1996 there was a TV movie Project ALF which tied up the loose ends from the show. The movie answered the question of whether or not he was successfully held by the US government, which he was not, he was able to escape.

Mr. Shumway also had a talk-show for a few years in the mid 2000′s by the name of ALF’s Hit Talk Show. Some of his guests were Drew Carey, Tom Green and Merv Griffin. He has been on various different shows including many appearances on Hollywood Squares, Matlock, Blossom and The Love Boat: The Next Wave.

He can currently been found on Twitter as @Verified_ALF.

It’s a little wild and a little strange…
when you make your home out on the range.
So, start your horse and come along.
‘Cause you can’t get a ride if you can’t hold on.
Singin’ yippee kai aie ay. (Yippee kai aie what?)
Like the cowboys say. (Sing it again now.)
Yippee kai aie ay.
‘Till the break of day.
(You’d better watch out for those man-eating jackrabbits… And that killer cacti!)
Hey Dude!

What a wonderfully awesome show. What’s not to like? Six kids living it up on a the Bar None Ranch, working their summer away riding horses and tending to guests. Who can say they didn’t have a crush on the young Christine Taylor…and some of us even had a crush on a girl named Brad.

Shot in Tuscon, Arizona over the course of 2 years, there were a total of 65 episodes which were supposed to cover just one summer of the kid’s lives. There is an amazing website by photographer Chad Lau that showcases the location and its current condition.

It’s so sad when good shows come to an end…there are quite a few ending this season (LOST being one of my favorite). Again, another unfortunate side-effect of Geocities shutting down, most all of the information about Hey Dude is lost. I apologize for the lack of quality information and photos but here is what I could scrape up.

Mr. Benjamin Ernst – David Brisbin

The 58-year old has continued to act after the show. He was in Forrest Gump, Leaving Las Vegas, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Erin Brockovich, The Adventures of Rock & Bullwinkle as well as many TV shows including The Wonder Years, Seinfeld, Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Melrose Place, The X Files, Boston Legal, Bones, Brothers & Sisters, NYPD Blue and most notably ER as Dr. Alexander Babcock.

He is married to actress Laura Innes (best known as Dr. Kerry Weaver on ER) and has two children, Cal (20 years old) and Mia (9 years old), who they adopted in 2002 from China.

Melody Hanson – Christine Taylor

The 38-year old is obviously the most famous Hey Dude alum. Since the show she has been in Zoolander, The Wedding Singer, The Brady Bunch Movie , A Very Brady Sequel, Desperate But Not Serious, Kiss Toledo Goodbye, Denial, The Craft, Overnight Delivery, Dedication, Licensed to Wed, Dodge Ball: A True Underdog Story and Tropic Thunder.

She has been on several other TV shows including Party Girl, Saved by the Bell, Seinfeld, Spin City, Friends, Ellen, Murphy Brown, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Arrested Development.

For the past few years Taylor has served on the board and has been actively involved with Project A.L.S., an organization that raises funds toward finding a cure and treatments for ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a fatal neuromuscular disease.

She is currently living in Los Angeles with her husband Ben Stiller who she has a 7-year old daughter, Ella Olivia, with.

Bradley “Brad” Taylor – Kelly Brown

After the show she pretty much stopped acting, got married, and started a family. She currently lives in upstate New York with her husband whom she has one child with.

Ted McGriff – David Lascher

After the show he continued to act in TV including work on Rosanne, Full House, Step By Step, Beverly Hills 90210, Blossom, Clueless, Veronica’s Closet and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

The 37-year old is currently living in Beverly Hills with is wife Jill and their two children.

In 2006 he did a parody skit of American Idol on Last Call with Carson Daly where he acted as Ryan Seacrest. He has a MySpace page.

Danny Lightfoot – Joe Torres

After the show he had a small role in Groove. We continued to live in Tucson, Arizona where he grew up and where Hey Dude was filmed. There have been various rumors floating around since 2004 that he died from liver disease brought on by alcoholism but those have been false claims.

He currently lives in New Jersey where he works at a Toyota Dealership as a car salesman.

Benjamin “Buddy” Ernst, Jr. – Josh Tygiel

After the show he did no further acting and there is no information about his current work.

Jack Decker – Jonathan Galkin

After the show he did no further acting. He is the co-founder of quite the successful record label, DFA records, which he is still the label manager for. Their most notable artist is LCD Soundsystem.

He currently lives in New York with his wife whom he has one son with. He has a blog here.

Salute Your Shorts was based on the book Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp written by Steve Slavkin, and who later was the producer of the show. Debuting in 1991, Salute Your Shorts featured seven campers attending Camp Anawana. It was actually filmed in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California.

Their counselor Kevin “Ug” Lee continued to look for ways of punishing the group. In the first episode, Bobby Budnick steals the new camper Michael’s boxer shorts and raises them on the flag pole. Hence the name, Salute Your Shorts!

Oddly enough there were only 2 seasons and 26 episodes. For whatever reason I feel like there were many more but guess not. It seems in 1992 MTV bought Nickelodeon and needed to make room (funding) for an animated show titled Bevis & Butthead. Salute Your Shorts has yet to be released on DVD but there are a few online petitions asking for them to be put out. There are also multiple Facebook fan pages. Fittingly it turns out the majority of fansites and photos were hosted on Geocities and most all of the stuff is gone now.

Kevin “Ug the Counselor” Lee – Kirk Baily

The 57-year-old Baily has continued to work in the movie industry. He has done quite a bit of voice acting including Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, .hack//, Over the Hedge and Open Season. He did a small bit of TV work as Magnus Hanson on Star Trek: Voyager, Felicity, Sisters and NYPD Blue. He has done some film work with roles in 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain, Houseguest and The Sixth Man. In 2007 he did the voice of Ted Murphy for a web series Afterworld.

Z.Z. Ziff – Megan Berwick

The 30-year-old did a small amount of acting after the show most notably The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. She went to college, moved to China and lived in Cambodia for some time. She has since moved back to Los Angeles (and also has residence in San Francisco where she’s from) and lives with her cat Spike. She is currently working at MTV Networks doing TV and Ad sales. She is interested in getting back into the industry. There is an hour long interview with her that can be heard here. She also did some work with www.kiva.org traveling to Chad Africa to help them find people in need of micro-financing.

Eddie “Donkeylips” C. Gelfen – Michael Ray Bower

The 35-year-old Bower is currently living in North Hollywood and is still acting here and there. As a note he was acting prior to Salute Your Shorts in small roles on The Wonder Years, Doogie Howser, Empty Nest and Webster. Since the show he has been on X-Files, Becker, CSI, Friends, Monk and was in Evolution and Dude Where’s My Car. He is also in a hilarious short on Funny or Die, Dinner with Raphael. He’s fairly accessible online via either his MySpace fan page or his Twitter . He has also put together a few nostalgic videos including these outtakes from the show. There is also a short interview with him on College Humor and one on Ink19.

Robert “Bobby” Budnick – Danny Cooksey

The 35-year-old is currently living in Los Angeles. Prior to Salute Your Shorts he was on Diff’rent Strokes, The Dukes of Hazard, Belvedere, MacGyver and Tim in Terminator 2. After the show he has continued in the industry doing a lot of voice acting including Tiny Toon Adventures, Invader Zim, Z Squad, Super Ted, Ren & Stimpy, 101 Dalmatians: The Series and Meet the Robinsons. He has had a few bands including Bad4Good, Arbuckle’s and Lucy’s Milk which he was the lead vocalist of. He is married and has one child.

Telly Radford – Venus DeMilo Thomas

After the show she continued acting finding small roles in Family Matters, The Bold and the Beautiful, Sister, Sister, Judging Amy, Meet the Hughleys and Smart Guy. She was able to put herself through college with her early acting success.

She currently lives in Los Angeles and is seeking acting roles. She has recently directed and edited a music video “Heaven and Hell” for singer Colleen Lovejoy from her new album Songbook. She has both a MySpace page and a Facebook. There is 20 minute interview with her on YouTube from May of 2009.

Sponge Harris – Trevor “Tim” Eyster

After the show his only real acting gig was on Babylon 5. In high school he maintained a computer bulletin board  “Pacific Island BBS”. At the age of 16, in May of 1996 he became a emancipated minor, he is now 30 years old.

As an adult he got a job as a flight attendant for United Airlines and traveled the world a bit including Brazil, Japan, Britain, Switzerland, Germany and Costa Rica. He also managed to get his California real estate license. He became interested in ham radios as a hobby. He currently lives in Chicago and has taken a fancy to singing as Fiercecalm where he mainly does covers including  “I’m On Fire” by Bruce Springsteen, “How do you Keep Love Alive?” by Ryan Adams, “The Scientist” by Coldplay and “Baker, Baker” by Tori Amos. He has considered getting back into acting recently. He has a Facebook fan page and there is a pretty long interview on Millionaire Playboy titled “I Am Sponge.”

Dina Alexander – Heidi Lucas

The 32 year old is currently living in Glendale, California working as an attorney. After the show she did a small amount of acting in Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Boy Meets World, The Wayans Brothers and Hypernauts. She graduated from the Indiana University School of Law in 2005. She also fluent in French and Chinese. There is a MySpace fan page up.

Michael Stein – Erik MacArthur

The 33 year old pretty much stepped out of acting after one season on Salute Your Shorts moving back to Hawaii with his family (where he grew up). In the late 90s he decided to get back in the business and was in  Pleasantville and We Were Soliders. He wrote, directed and starred in a short film “Life Makes Sense if You’re Famous” that starred some of his buddies Paul Walker, Scott Caan and Desemond Harrington. He directed his  first feature film Bottoms Up in 2006 which starred Jason Mewes and with a cameo by Kevin Smith.

Ronald “Ronnie” Foster Pinksy – Blake Soper/Blake Sennett

After the show he did some further acting with roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 3rd Rock From the Sun and Boy Meets World. The 33 year old is currently living in Los Angeles and is lead guitarist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley and the lead singer and guitarist for The Elected. Both bands have received high critical acclaim and enjoyed modest success although neither currently have plans for the future. He composed the score for the film Don’s Plum but because of a lawsuit it was only released as a Region 2 DVD. We was dating/engaged to actress Winona Ryder for nearly a year but in August of 2008 the couple split up. In 2009 he wrote and directed Water Pills starring Winona.

You know, it’s easy to look back at the past through rose-colored glasses and claim that everything was better when we were kids, but guess what: it wasn’t. In fact, things were objectively worse in a lot of ways (are you really going to tell me that a broken-down Nintendo Entertainment System is better than an Xbox 360?). But one thing will always be true: Saturday morning cartoons suck. For every masterpiece like a Ren & Stimpy, there’s 20 completely abysmal abortions that kids watch because kids are stupid. Read more here.

So, you need to pass a history report and the only way to do this is to go back in time and kidnap a bunch of famous people, or you need to get the hell out of Dodge because you just watched a bunch of Libyans shoot up the crazy old man who is your only friend. Or maybe you just want to go back in time to amaze and seduce peasant girls with your iPhone. We’ve all been there. The only problem is coming up with a way to make it happen. Well, luckily for you, we here at Heavy have compiled a handy list of time travel methods, each with their various benefits and drawbacks, for you to peruse. Read more.

Take a moment to read through the previous episodes, especially the first one if you haven’t already. It will give you a better understanding of the “characters” involved with the show and with the rules and procedures for the BBQ competition circuit.

BBQ Pitmasters Episode 1 Smokin’ in Mesquite Nevada Open BBQ Championships
BBQ Pitmasters Episode 2 Murphysboro Barbecue Cook-off
BBQ Pitmasters Episode 3 Decatur Riverfest Cook Off
BBQ Pitmasters Episode 4 American Royal Invitational

This episode was the American Royal Open held in Kansas City, Missouri. Held right on the back of the Invitational which took place Friday & Saturday October 2-3, 2009. The Open took place on Sunday and as it’s name implies is not exclusive with is competitors as you can see with the nearly 500 who have entered.

This is one of the largest BBQ competitions in the nation…so any finish remotely near the top is darn good. One of things about the American Royal Open is that there is a group of competitors that tend to do it more as a party rather than a contest. More power to them but the real serious guys don’t appreciate that much. Harry Soo had an issue with this as the team stationed right next to him held a party with 300 guests that went into the wee hours of the night affecting his sleep.

Another interesting thing about this competition is that they require a 1:1 competitor to judge ratio. That means that there are a lot of judges that have been certified just for this contest…which also means that they’re brand new and don’t have experience. Myron discusses this a bit and brings up the point that their tastes are different and mentions that if he had chicken legs he would serve those over his thighs.

American Royal Open BBQ Contest
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Date: October 4, 2009
Categories: Chicken, Ribs, Pork & Brisket
Total Competitors: 473
Promoter: Kansas City Barbeque Society
Website – Results

Chicken
14 – Tuffy Stone – Cool Smoke
59 – LeeAnn Whippen – Wood Chicks BBQ
186 – Johnny Trigg – Smokin Triggers
261 – Myron Mixon – Jack’s Old South
266 – Paul Petersen – Pablo Diablo BBQ
315 – Harry Soo – Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ

Pork Ribs
30 – Johnny Trigg – Smokin Triggers
46 – Myron Mixon – Jack’s Old South
62 – Paul Petersen – Pablo Diablo BBQ
66 – Harry Soo – Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ
192 – Tuffy Stone – Cool Smoke
365 – LeeAnn Whippen – Wood Chicks BBQ

Pork
6 – Johnny Trigg – Smokin Triggers
78 – Myron Mixon – Jack’s Old South
139 – Paul Petersen – Pablo Diablo BBQ
199 – Harry Soo – Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ
210 – Tuffy Stone – Cool Smoke
353 – LeeAnn Whippen – Wood Chicks BBQ

Brisket
3 – LeeAnn Whippen – Wood Chicks BBQ
75 – Myron Mixon – Jack’s Old South
87 – Tuffy Stone – Cool Smoke
248 – Johnny Trigg – Smokin Triggers
320 – Paul Petersen – Pablo Diablo BBQ
385 – Harry Soo – Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ

Overall
47 – Johnny Trigg – Smokin Triggers
50 – Myron Mixon – Jack’s Old South
70 – Tuffy Stone – Cool Smoke
139 – LeeAnn Whippen – Wood Chicks BBQ
177 – Paul Petersen – Pablo Diablo BBQ
256 – Harry Soo – Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ

“I don’t give two shits if somebody stood up back there and held their hand up and took the damn oath of BBQ and says well hell I’ma certify BBQ, my ass. Ya know, just because you sit there and said some words how in the hell does that make you a judge?” All you’ve done back there, you took a damn oath to eat. And that’s all they are…damn eaters.” – Myron Mixon

“One error lead to a second error and second error lead to a third error. Ah, that has never happened to me in a contest where I’ve kind of lost my focus on 2 of the 4 meat entries. Usually we’re very focused but I was just tired. And waking that one hour late on the morning of the cook just really threw us off.” – Harry Soo

“I’m just 1 of 500 that cooked their ass off. I know everybody else did too…but I know what kind of damn stuff I had, same kind of stuff I got has probably done won me $100,000 this year already. Ya know, and you come here and you don’t even damn walk, I mean it’s damn heartbreaking. You know I could have stayed close to my damn house and won me 5-6 thousand dollars this weekend.” – Myron Mixon

As always there were some guys from the show that weren’t featured. This episode left out Johnny Trigg (mostly) and Tuffy Stone. I really don’t know why TLC decides to do this each time. Obviously it has something to do with what they think people will like to see and which teams have the most “drama” or sound bites.

I personally would love to at least see something on everyone each episode so you know they are there and kept in the loop on how they are doing. Even more surprising about this is that Johnny actually finished the best in the Overall category at 47th and Tuffy finished a respectful 70th. They did at least show a very small bit on Johnny at the end of the episode but really just on the relationship between him and Paul.